WINDOw-SHADE BRACKET.



PATENTED DEG. 19, 1905. Q

A. F. BRADLEY. WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17,1905.

FIL-L ETI-EE attentat* ALFRED F. BRADLEY, oF NEW YoEx, N. Y.

WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

No. s073593.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed July 17,1905. Serial No. 270,122.

1 '0 a/Z whom, t may concern:

Be it known that l, ALFRED F. BRADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade Brackets and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in window-shade hangers of the vertical adjustable type; and it consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, comparatively inexpensive, and efficient hanging device for shade-rollers by means of which they may be quickly and easily adjusted vertically upon a windowframe or the like.

The above and other objects, which will appear as the nature of my invention is better understood, are accomplished by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a windowframe with my improvedshade-hanger applied thereto, parts of the device being broken away to more clearly illustrate the construction. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of aportion of one of the guides, showing its slide therein and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the slide of the other guide.

Referring to the drawings by numeral, 1 denotes the frame of a window, dooror the like in which a shade-roller 2 is adjustably mounted by my improved hanging device 3. The latter consists of guides 4, slides 5, which are'mounted in said guides and support the shade-roller 2 between them, guiding devices or pulleys 6, and cords or cables 7, which are passed about said guiding devices and attached to said slide so that the latter will move together in the same direction. The guides 4 are adapted to be secured upon the sides of the frame 1 and, as clearly shown in the drawings, are in the form of channeled bars, which are of U form in cross-section. The slides 5 are preferably in the form of rectangular blocks, which slide between the sides of the guide and which have in their outer faces sockets adapted to receive the ends of the shadeeroller` 2. The latter may be of any form and construction, and when the usual spring-actuated shade-roller is used, as illustrated in the drawings, the bearing-sockets 8 9 in the slide-blocks 5 are shaped to t its ends, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings, the socket 8 being in the form of a rectangular notch or recess to receive the spring-actuated journal of the roller and the socket 9 being circular to receive the iixed journal upon the opposite end of the roller. The inner end of each of the sliding blocks 5 is recessed longitudinally, as shown at 10, to permit one of the cables 7 to pass between the block and the inner end of its guide 4, as will be seen upon reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings. The guiding devices 6 are preferablyin the form of pulleys and are arranged adjacent to the ends of the guides 4, three being provided upon each side of the frame, one at the lower end of the guide and two at the upper end of the latter.

The cords 7, which support the sliding blocks 5, are so arranged, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, that when one is moved either upwardly or downwardly to adjust the shade-roller vertically the other will also be moved, so that the blocks or slides 5 will move simultaneously and be maintained in the same horizontal plane. It will be seen that, as shown, two of the cords are provided, one being attached at 11 to the bottom of one of the blocks or slides, then passed downwardly around the lower pulley 6, then upwardly between said block and its guide 4, then around one of the upper pulleys upon the adjacent side of the frame 1, then across the top of the latter and around one of the pulleys upon the opposite side of the frame, then downwardly, and has its other end attached, as at 12, to the top of the other block or slide 5, and the other of said cords being similarly connected and mounted, as

yclearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

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Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described windowshade X- ture, comprising the channeled guides 4f, U- shaped in cross-section, 'for attachment to the inner faces of the sides of a window-casing, the blocks 5 to travel in said channeled guides, having the recesses in their inner sides for the journals of the shade-roller and the longitudinal recesses l0 in their outer sides opposed to the channeled guides, the direction-pulleys above and below the channeled guides and the cords each passed over block.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

p ALFRED F. BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

JosEPH C. RANKIN, C. T. RUSHER. 

